True Potato Seed is different, they are actual botanical seeds. These are made in the same way that any plant makes seeds. Every plant that arises from true potato seed is genetically different. If you plant a dozen true potato seeds you will get a dozen different varieties of potato. If you find one you like you can grow them vegetatively from there. This is how plant breeders have come up with the different varieties of potatoes you can buy.
This year I got some True Potato Seed and grew some potatoes from those true botanical seeds. Each and every plant that grows from true potato seed is genetically unique.
This year the ones I grew were diploid potatoes, which are different from the usual tetraploid potatoes. They are more of a wild variety of potato and have not had polyploidy induced in them. They also had a huge amount of genetic diversity which I love. The seed grown potato plants looked nice and on some plants the flowers were stunningly beautiful.
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| Yield from one true potato seed grown plant, not huge the first year |
